Creative Crossroads Cycle One 2023–2024
Marion Darova
Marion Darova is a choreographer and performer from Sofia. Her interests include philosophy, psychoanalysis, social issues, and gender. Her works are characterized by minimalism and repetition of movement. Marion explores the inclusion of the body in the question of identity and the problematization of the natural-social relationship. In her dance performances WO MAN and FREEFALL, Marion engages with Judith Butler and Jacques Lacan's ideas on gender. For both performances, she received an ICAR nomination and an award respectively. In her last piece – CODE RED – Marion explores the effects of the Gaze on the body in the context of public actions, performances and stage presentations.
In 2024, she will work on her new project with the working title Vapor which focuses on the lonely, disappearing body in the conditions of strong visual stimulation that modernity exerts on man. She conducted research for this project in the entertainment industry - videos, series, music genres, and films.
Code Red by Marion Darova
Photos by Nikola Gylmezov.
Creative Crossroads Residency in Stockholm
In March 2024 Marion Darova is on residency at MDT Stockholm. She is working on her new project with the working title Vapor which focuses on the lonely, disappearing body in the conditions of strong visual stimulation that modernity exerts on man. She conducted research for this project in the entertainment industry - videos, series, music genres, and films.
Martina Apostolova will join the residency period at MDT. She is a Bulgarian theatre and film actress, known for her work in the underground and independent art fields and cinema.
Read more about it at MDTs website.
Marion Darova in residence at ImPulsTanz
Our Bulgarian Creative Crossroads artist Marion Darova and her collaborator Martina Apostolova arrived in Vienna at ImPulsTanz, were she has a studio for one week and a huge performance and workshop programme to choose from.